Washing-machine.



PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905.

(Juvenfoz w. J? WmMLL States Patented February 28, 1905.

ATENT UFFICE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783,917, dated February 28, 1905.

Application filed tcptcmbcr 22, 1903. Faerial No. 174,194.

To all] whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, NATHANIEL T. WORTH, LIGY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brunswick, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Washing Machines; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this s 'iecilication.

Figure 1 is a section on the line 1 1, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the washing-machine on the line 2 .2, Fig. 1.

The invention has relation to washing-machines, and. has for its object the improvement of my washingmachine patented May 21, 1872, and numbered 127,133, with the object of enabling light fabrics which have a tendency to wind around the small lower rolls to be untangled therefrom with facility.

With this object in view the invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, all as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the letter a designates the base I of the main frame, to which are secured the uprightsb at the ends thereof, these uprights being provided each with a vertical slot or way 0, in which is arranged aspiral spring 0?, providing a yielding bearing for the journal ends c of the rocker-frame f. In the upper ends of the uprights are pivoted the journals of the large corrugated roller /A, which is designed to be turned by means of a crank.

The rocker-frame consists of the sides t and the longitudinal center bar at, which is extended beyond the sides to form the journal ends 6. The sidesl are extended upward and outward to form the handle-guards p and are provided with the bearings q, open at their upper ends. In the bearings g, which are arranged at the sides of the central bar at, are located the journals of the under rollers s, there being two of these under rollers laterally arranged below the large roller 11. and designed to operate in connection therewith. The handle-guards 7) extend upward and outward in somewhat parallel relation to the circumferential contour of the large roller in such wise as to guide the goods in their passage between the large roller and the under rollers, so that they will move freely when being drawn upward by the operation of the large roller. These handle-guards serve also to provide accessible handles for depressing the rockerframe when it becomes necessary to remove an under roller from its bearing to disengage light articles, such as fringes, &c., which may become wound around the roller. The handleguards also serve as bearings to receive the rol1er-journals when displaced from the bearings q temporarily for the purpose above indicated, a bearing-recess 1') being provided in these handle-guards intermediate of the journal-bearings q and the outer ends of the handle-guards for the reception of the roller-journals which will rest therein. As the handle guard of one side assumes a horizontal or nearly horizontal position when the rockerframe is depressed on one side the roller 01 that side can be easily slipped out of the bearings 1 upon the guards p, which support it while the adjustment of the goods is being accomplished. In its operation the clothes are worked back and forth between the upper large roller and the under rollers, the construction allowing the latter to accommodate themselves to the bulk of the articles being washed.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

In a washing-machine, the combination with the vertically slotted uprights of the main frame, the spring and the large corrugated roller JOUIHZLlGd therein, of the yielding pivoted rocker-frame having the ournalbearings open at the top, the upward and outward cesses of the handle-guards, substantially as inclined handle-guards having a bearing-respecified. IO cess intermediate of said journal-hearings and In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the outer ends of said handle-guards, and represence of two Witnesses.

movable laterally-arranged lower rollers hav- NATHANIEL T. WORTHLEY. ing journals removably seated in the open top Witnesses: bearings of the rocker-frame, and adapted A. WV. WORTHLEY,

to be received and to rest in the bearing-re- CARRIE M. l/VORTHLEY. 

